Measuring system and means therefor.



A. E. 'STANDEN.

MEASURING SYSTEM AND MEANS THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT.8, 1903.

946,471. Patented Jan. 11,1910.

Witnesses SAM/alron,

HEB areson.

ALFRED E. STANIJEN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MEASURING SYSTEM AND MEANS THEREFOR.

Specification of. Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1910.

Application filed September 8, 1963. Serial No. 172,295.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,ALFRED- STANDEN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring. Systems and Means- Therefor; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the" accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, part of this specification.

This invention relates more particularly to a measuring system and means therefor adapted to permitany desired quantity or portion or length of fabric or other material capable of being put up in coils, bolts, rolls or the like to be measured therefrom and at the same time to indicate accurately the quantity or amount of the material remaining in the piece.

Heretofore it has been customary to put up fabric of all kinds and many other inaterials in rolls bolts or coils containing a. givennumber of yards dependent upon the character or class of goods. In selling the goods at retail it has been customary to measure from the outer end of the roll. bolt or coil, the desired quantity of the fabric by means of an ordinary yard tape or the cuswhich form a- I i 1 l 5 in; perspective of and saving the fabricfrom injury due to unnecessary handling.-

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter described and morefully pointed out and defined in; the appended claims;

Inthedrawings-z- Figure 1 is a view partly a ribbon roll provided 5 with a measuring device embodying my intomary counter measure with the result? that after the oods have once been cut it is usually impossible for the salesman to know accurately the quantity of goods remaining vention. I Fig. 2 is a view of a measuring strip embodying my invention showing both front and. rear sides thereof. As shown in said drawings: A indicates thematerial orfabric which in the present nstance for convenience of illustration indicated as a: ribbon and B indicates a measuring. strip which may be of any desired width or material, but in the drawings is shown of a Width slightly greater than the fabric and is provided along oneor both marglns-wlth standard linear scales reading opposite from the'ends and from end to end of the fabric and: said strip- Preferably said scales are expressed both. in the-metric system and in yards, fractions thereof and inches,- and where the strip is of suflicient width as shown in the drawin s said scales are arranged on both sides of t e strip. On one side in that case the English scale ex: pressedin yards, fractions thereof and, inches isarranged near the margin and reading from opposite ends of'the strip and the linear metric scale likewise indicated thereon dicated between the outer scales.

in the piece without unrolling, measuring the same and again rolling. As a consequence the goods are greatly in ured and soiled by the frequent rolling and unrolling by salesmen to determine if the roll or bolt I On the opposite side of the strip the arrangement i is preferably reversed, the metric scale being i arranged adjacent to the margins and the contains enough to fill a given order. Fur- 5 thermore at the time of stocktaking it is necessary to actually unroll and measure all the goods or fabric remaining in stock but I obviously though the quantity of the goods is usually marked in pencil on the covering wrapper or tag it a ain becomes meaningless after the first sa e from the roll.

means enabling'the salesman to measure v determine without unrolling the goods, the I inglish scale arran ed between the same. This is particular y advantageous and adapts one style of strip to be used with equal advantage in all countries using either the English or' metric systems of measurements. In the countries using the English system the ribbon is rolled on the side of the strip on which the English scales are adjacent the margins and for the countries using the metric system the ribbon is The object of this invention is to provide I wrapped on the opposite side of the strip or on the side with the metric scales adjacent the margins. It is thus seen that in I either event the scales of the system used are exposed.

The measuring strips which may be conexactamount of the fabric remaining thus i veniently made of thin paper are of course greatly economizing in expense for labor of a length appropriate to the length of the wise arranged than as herein described and i if preferred other scales may be employed in addition thereto and fabrics of any desired kind, capable of being rolled, coiled or put up in bolts may be employed in connection therewith and if preferred the scales may be indicated on the material itself and the proper length is selected and placed or laid on the material with the ends matching and the bolt, roll or coil is formed as usual rolling the stri therein which, if the fabric isnarrow, a ri bon or the like, alfords protection for the fabric as well as means for facilitating measurement.

If the fabric is of wider material such as cotton cloth, silks, i

woolens or other fabrics, the stri may still be made of a Width sufiicient to orm a protection to the fabric, or if preferred may be made narrow and rolled therein as before described and if of thin pa er or other material will not distort or a set the shape of the roll. In sellin goods with which my invention is used t e salesman cuts therefrom the amount of the sale by reference to E At any details of construction and arrangement may be varied without departing from the principles of this invention.

1 claim as my invention 1. In a device of the class described a thin strip of paper Wider than the fabric to be wound thereon having a plurality of oppositely graduated standard scales on each side of the same, the scale of one standard on one side being adjacent the margins and the other scale adjacent the center of the strip and said scales reversely arranged with respect to the middle and margin of the strip on the opposite side of said strip.

2. In a device of the class described a thin stri of paper of greater width than the art-ic e rolled therewith having a plurality of oppositely arranged standard scales on each side of said strip, said scales graduated to re resent their res ctive divisions P either linear scale indicated on the strip. l

Furthermore as both the principal linear scales are used the system is equally advantageous if used with fabrics or materials that are shipped abroad or used in domestic trade. Inasmuch as the measuring strip affords an accurate scale a avoided. Obviously the scales may be otherortion of which E the purchaser receives wit his order and 1 which indicates the exact amount of his purand one placed adjacent the margins and the other adjacent the center and the scales on the opposite side of said strip reversed in position with respect to the margin and middle of the strip.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED E. STANDEN.

Witnesses C. W. HILLs, WILLIAM R. GRANT. 

